Greg Norman is one of the British Open’s great champions. When the revered golf tournament celebrates its 150th anniversary next week, he won’t be welcome. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews released a statement on Saturday announcing that it had reached out to Norman to tell him not to show up to festivities leading up to next weekend’s championship. “In response to enquiries regarding The R&A Celebration of Champions field and the Champions’ Dinner, we can confirm that we… Source link
Read More »Top-five picks Paolo Banchero and Keegan Murray shine in double-OT Summer League thriller as Magic squeak by
LAS VEGAS — The third day of of the Las Vegas Summer League started out with a bang as two top-five draft picks squared off. It was the Paolo Banchero (No. 1 pick) and Keegan Murray (No. 4 pick) show, and it lived up to every expectation and then some. The game needed sudden-death double overtime and Banchero’s Orlando Magic secured the win, 94-92, over the Sacramento Kings in the main gym at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Magic had a comfortable 18-point lead with 5:26 left in the game…. Source link
Read More »Former Seahawks, 49ers CB Jimmy Williams dies at 43
Jimmy Williams (R) was an All-SEC player at Vanderbilt who to returned to his hometown after his NFL retirement to teach, coach football and run a foundation serving Baton Rouge youth. (Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images) Former San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Jimmy Williams died on Friday at 43 years old. The Baton Rouge Advocate reports that Williams died of an undisclosed illness. His alma mater Vanderbilt declined to provide additional details of his death while citing his… Source link
Read More »Blazers guard Shaedon Sharpe suffers shoulder tear
The Portland Trail Blazers will have to wait a little bit longer to see what they have in seventh overall pick Shaedon Sharpe. The team announced Saturday that an MRI revealed Sharpe suffered a small labral tear in his left shoulder during Portland’s Summer League game against the Detroit Pistons on July 7. He’ll miss the rest of the Trail Blazers’ Summer League games and will be reevaluated in 10-14 days, according to the team. Sharpe was considered one of the biggest mysteries of the 2022… Source link
Read More »In just three short years, Sam Presti and the Thunder are bulding something special
LAS VEGAS — The Oklahoma City Thunder entered the Las Vegas Summer League showcase with two wins under their belt, after going 2-1 in Salt Lake City earlier in the week. The No. 2 pick in the draft, Chet Holmgren, put on a show in his NBA debut, posting 23 points, seven rebounds, six blocks and four assists in a win over the Utah Jazz. The following game, it was rookie (and No. 12 overall pick) Jalen Williams who shined with 16 points, three rebounds and two steals in 22 minutes. In the… Source link
Read More »Ravens’ Lamar Jackson changes Instagram profile amid contract negotiations
Last we heard from Lamar Jackson, he was keeping his contract negotiations with the Baltimore Ravens “private” and drama-free. He told reporters he expected to finish his career in Baltimore and wouldn’t take into consideration the ridiculous $230 million contract the Cleveland Browns handed Deshaun Watson despite numerous sexual assault allegations. That was over a month ago, though, and no new information has surfaced since. But some clues on social media could signal frustrations from… Source link
Read More »Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok – TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. App Annie says global spending across iOS and Google Play is up to $135 billion in 2021, and that figure will likely be higher when its… Source link
Read More »How Elon’s bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock
Elon Musk on Friday announced he was backing out of his $44 billion Twitter acquisition bid, blaming the social media platform’s alleged lack of transparency regarding bots on the site. As both sides prepare for a lengthy court battle, some Twitter influencers are floating an alternate theory for the change of heart: The bots were never the problem, merely a vehicle through which to covertly sell Tesla options that were about to expire. “Entire thing was a clever ruse to SELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5… Source link
Read More »Jake Plummer is now a mushroom farmer in Colorado
If you ever wondered what former Arizona Cardinals and Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer is doing now, wonder no longer: Plummer is a co-founder of Mycolove Farm, which has been selling locally grown medicinal and culinary mushrooms and mushroom extracts 30 miles outside Denver, Colorado, since 2021. “It’s not like we discovered this new mushroom,” Plummer told USA Today’s Parker Gabriel. “These have been around forever, so we’re just figuring out ways to grow them efficiently,… Source link
Read More »This Portland student is now a three-time Doodle for Google finalist
Matthew Lei is at it again. For the third time, Lei is the Oregon winner of the annual Doodle for Google contest, where students compete to redesign the Google logo for a day. Lei, who attends Lincoln High School in Portland, has entered the competition every year since he was in third grade at Forest Park Elementary School, when his private art teacher Wanda Ng encouraged the budding doodler to give it a shot. He won Oregon’s state competition that year–and again as a sixth-grader at West… Source link
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